This is set during Series 3. It's already all been written, but I'll be putting it up on here piece by piece; this means that there will be no long waits for new bits. However, I would still very much like reviews of each and every new little bit that gets added; so please do take just two minutes to make a comment.

Anyway; Missing In Action by xiao32615987

Laser blasts flew around her as she ran forwards. Concentrating on her destination, she weaved a little as another volley was fired; she couldn't see the others. The rock in front of her loomed closer; if she could reach it she could get her bearings again. A hammer blow hit her square between the shoulders and she flew forwards. Unable to keep upright she slammed into the ground and slid into the very rock she had been trying to reach. She pulled herself up but dove back to the ground as three more shots hit the rock just where her head had been.

"Aelita be careful," Came Jeremie's voice, from the sky as always. He shouted something else, but Aelita was not listening. His voice had stirred her to move and in one swift action she leapt to her feet, evading the next three lasers. She concentrated on the three Bloks stumbling their way towards her, picking the lead one she closed her eyes as she focused her energy.

"Energy field!" She cried and the pink orb raced towards its target, which devirtualised with a satisfactory explosion. She didn't see the impact or the other two Bloks walk into each other in their confusion, she simply ran on around the rock.

"Aelita, Odd's been devirtualised, hurry up!" came Jeremie's voice again, sounding a little more panicked now, without Odd it only left her and Yumi. She ran down a narrow path, leading to yet another mountain and more lasers flew past, the Bloks were back. Concentrating quickly, Aelita fired behind her once more, but no sound of exploding monsters came; only returning fire.

She rounded the mountain and finally saw it, the activated tower. It was not far ahead and before it stood Yumi, devirtualising a Tarantula skilfully. Aelita continued her sprint as the Bloks came round the mountain as well, firing a jet of ice which only narrowly missed. Yumi ran towards Aelita to attack the monsters and her fans flew by, cutting a graceful path through the air. But throwing both weapons left her defenceless and Yumi was hit in the chest by two shots that had missed Aelita. She seemed to disintegrate before her eyes as the force threw her backwards and she was devirtualised.

"At least she did better than Odd." Aelita said to herself, but heard the sky protest in a familiar voice that made her smile. As she got close to the tower she noticed the lack of lasers, both fans had found their marks.

[***]

In the factory, Jeremie relaxed as he saw Aelita's triangle enter the tower. Xana had put up quite a fight on Lyoko and they had won, but something still worried him. 'What had Xana's attack actually been?' Jeremie thought, 'Why put up such a defence for a tower that you're not even going to use?'

"Hey Jeremie," said Ulrich beside him, bringing him back to Earth. "What do you think Xana's attack was anyway?" It seemed Ulrich had been thinking along the same lines as him. Jeremie was only dimly aware of Aelita's voice, "Tower deactivated." before he spoke.

"I'm not sure Ulrich," he said truthfully, "but we can only hope that we stopped him before he managed to get it through." Ulrich's expression looked unconvinced, "But I suppose we could take a look around, just in case."

"No way," Came Odd's voice from the corner, sulking slightly, "Tonight we've got spaghetti and meatballs and there's no way I'm missing that."

"Oh yeah," said Ulrich, "and you've got a date with that blonde girl from down the road… what was her name again?"

"You mean the one with the bent nose?" said Yumi incredulously. Ulrich nodded and they all broke out into laughter, all that is except Odd.

"Hey, you said you wouldn't tell!" Odd exclaimed, jumping to his feet and pointing an accusing finger at Ulrich.

"And you said you wouldn't leave your dirty socks on my bed." Came the retort and Yumi made a disgusted noise, she had first hand experience with Odd's old socks. They were laughing so much that Jeremie jumped when he heard the noise that came from the computer.

"Jeremie? You haven't forgotten about me have you?" Came Aelita's accusing voice. Jeremie felt his face burn, he had forgotten completely. More laughing came from behind and this time Odd was included in the chorus.

"Sorry Aelita," he said quickly, "I'll materialise you right now."

He brought up the necessary program as the laughter died down behind him and entered the codes, being careful to note that Aelita was now outside the tower. In just a few seconds the orders were inputted and it was ready.

"Okay." He said to himself, "Materialisation Aelita." And he hit the enter key.

The moment he had done so several windows popped up before him, each bearing a red exclamation mark and bleeping in alarm. He closed them hurriedly to shut off the noise and lead seemed to fill his stomach, his mouth was dry as he adjusted the microphone.

"A-Aelita? Are you still there?" he asked tentatively, aware of the others leaning in around him.

"Of course I am… You didn't forget about me again did you!?" She sounded slightly annoyed now.

"No." He answered, relief sweeping over him as though he were breathing it, dissolving the lead in his stomach. "There are just a few errors, so I can't rematerialise you, but hold on and I'll work it out."

"But how come it worked for me just a couple of minutes ago?" said Yumi beside him.

"Well- er… I don't know, maybe I did something wrong. I'll run a quick analysis of the program to see where the trouble-"

"Jeremie?" said Aelita's voice again.

"Hang on Aelita. Yeah, here it is, the analysis shows that the problem is in the devirtualisation part-"

"Jeremie?" Aelita now sounded more urgent.

"It's alright Aelita, you can't be rematerialised but I'm working on the solution. If I can just-"

"JEREMIE! HELP!"